"Dump McCain or we're outta here, and the GOP is toast!" That's the basic message contained in this online petition to the GOP leadership, explaining why Republicans face almost certain defeat if their nominee is McCain -- and why t

"Dump McCain or we're outta here, and the GOP is toast!" That's the basic message contained in this online petition to the GOP leadership, explaining why Republicans face almost certain defeat if their nominee is McCain -- and why t

Arizona state senator Karen Johnson is petitioning presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain to meet with 9/11 conspiracy theorists, including an adjunct professor from Scottsdale who has been fasting outside McCain's Phoeniz office for mo

New York City police detectives and Secret Service agents had shut down the exhibition, and building workers had quickly covered over the inflammatory title with large sheets of brown paper and blue masking tape. The gallery is across the street from

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton will drop out of the presidential race and cede the Democratic nomination to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at the end of this week, per an official statement from her campaign.

One sign that a republic is near the end of its life is systematic legal plunder; or, in the words of Fredrick Bastiat, “if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

Terry McAuliffe, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (N.Y.) campaign chairman, said Tuesday that he believes that, once Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) reaches the needed # of delegates the former first lady “will congratulate him and call him the nominee.”

On a conference call with other New York lawmakers, Clinton, a New York senator, said she was willing to become Obama's vice presidential nominee if it would help Democrats win the White House, according to several participants in the call.

Bill Kristol proudly announces one of his Weekly Standard staff members, Michael Goldfarb, is the Deputy Communications Director of the McCain campaign. Last April, Goldfarb wrote about the powers the President possesses in our country:

Recently Congress sent the latest Farm Bill to the president featuring brand new federal programs, expansion of existing subsidies, more food stamps and more foreign food aid. It hits the taxpayer hard, while ensuring food prices will remain elevated

[I remember when this was a bonus not a goal.] The Libertarian Party chose as its new standard-bearer Bob Barr, the former four-term Republican congressman from Georgia who has already been branded a spoiler by Sean Hannity, the conservative commenta

After Saturday’s decision by the DNC to allow the Florida delegates to be seated at this summer’s DNC convention–but with only one-half a vote. The reaction of Democrats from the Sunshine State has been one of voters angry enough to contemplate stayi

Former president Bill Clinton dropped a hint Monday that the end might be nigh for his wife Hillary's dogged campaign for the Democratic White House nomination, according to reports. (This would be a shock to me - something's up :)

Just this past weekend (5/22–25/08) I attended the Libertarian Party Convention in Denver. In what follows are some reflections on this experience, and ruminations on the future of the party in particular, and on the libertarian movement in general.

In a speech to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC in Washington, McCain declared Iran the "foremost" enemy in the Middle East and said it could pose an "existential threat" to Israel if it succeeds in acquiring a nuclear bomb.

The meeting of the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee has been an interesting one to watch. All sides in the unfortunate matters of fighting over how to seat (or not) the delegations from Florida and Michigan at this year's national convention

Democratic Party leaders agreed to seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half votes into this summer's convention with a compromise that left Barack Obama on the verge of the nomination but riled Hillary Rodham Clinton backers who threatened t